Russia Former Soviet Republics category: 572 books

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet St Petersburgis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Experience imperial Russia and the world of the tsars, immerse yourself in art and...

Basata su testimonianze, memorie, interviste, questa bellissima storia della cultura a Pietroburgo coinvolge tanti nomi molto noti a livello mondiale, da Brodskij a Puškin, da Balancčin a Nabokov, da Dostoevskij a Achmatova. Solomon Volkov ha il pregio e il prestigio che gli permettono di condurre...

Una guida per scoprire i numerosi tesori d'arte e le tradizioni millenarie di regioni che gli eventi storici recenti avevano, per così dire, opacizzato - Una sintesi per cogliere la cultura russa con tanti richiami alla storia, all'arte e alle tradizioni - Mosca e San Pietroburgo, le città più...

Due romani, una russa, un viaggio nella patria di Lenin e Dostoevskij, in quel dell’agosto 2005. Ad aspettarli una rete di amici e un programma di visite turistiche nelle bellissime Mosca e San Pietroburgo; l’idea, l’illusione di una vacanza rilassante, confortevole. Fabio, Maga e Masha saranno...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Helsinki, Finland. Founded in 1550, Helsinki the "Daughter of the Baltic" has been the Finnish capital since 1812, when it was rebuilt by the tsars of Russia along the lines of a miniature St. Petersburg, a role it has played in many a Cold...

Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees, engineers, top-level government officials, doctors, environmentalists, parents of sick children and people...

If I had let myself be ruled by reason alone, I would surely be lying dead somewhere or another in the Siberian frost. The Siberian taiga: a massive forest region of roughly 4.5 million square miles, stretching from the Ural Mountains to the Bering Sea, breathtakingly beautiful and the coldest inhabited...

This is the official Holiday FM Guide to Moscow. This handy bitesize guide gives you everything you might want for the ideal trip to the big city. Background information about the history of the City will hopefully give you a better understanding of its origins and make your visit more enjoyable. ...

No railway journey on Earth can equal the Trans-Siberian between Moscow and Vladivostock. It is not just its vast length and the great variety of the lands and climes through which it passes. It is not just its history as the line that linked the huge territories which are Russia together. It is a dream...

This revised and updated edition of Culture Smart! Ukraine reveals a country in the throes of change. The euphoria of the famous Orange Revolution has vanished. The momentum for reform has been checked and the forces of authoritarianism have returned. Even so, modernization continues apace and people...

Stephen Harris is hopelessly addicted to travel.  With a strong fascination for all things foreign, including food, culture, and women Stephen recounts his adventures.  Stephen heads to Russia where he meets Absinthe, Vodka, and a beautiful girl who fulfills an old cliché.

Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged...

Though usually forgotten in general surveys of European colonization, the Russians were among the greatest colonizers of the Old World, eventually settling across most of the immense expanse of Northern Europe and Asia, from the Baltic and the Pacific, and from the Arctic Ocean to Central Asia. This...

From the author of Gulf-Diary of the Microchip War. This concise history, also re-edited by the author of the original 1991 paperback, whilst not intended as a biography, charts the meteoric rise of Mikhail Gorbachev through the ranks of the Communist Party but primarily covers events during...